Here's Some Stupid For Lunch

A friend is on the gimme-all-yer-money list for the Republican National Committee and she sent along the latest device designed to remove the cash from the wallets of the rubes and yahoos.

Featuring the classic Reagan-Bush '84 logo, these American-made vintage t-shirts are available in red and blue. Just like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did in 1984, we can bring America back with principled conservative leaders in the White House and Senate.

OK, as creepy as I find the whole Reagan cargo cult, I can see where you might want to sell replica tchotchkes from the 1980 campaign which, for good or ill, mostly ill, upset the whole applecart. But the 1984 campaign and the administration that followed? The Iran-Contra years? (Principled leaders!) The near-sellout to the wily Gorbachev in Iceland. (Ask George Effing Will about that one.) The fact that the president likely was a symptomatic Alzheimer's patient for all four of those years? The memory of Poppy Bush, whom no conservative ever trusted, and the man whom they abandoned in 1992?

I have always liked the actual Reagan much more than the Reagan who runs around the frontal lobes of his most fervent acolytes. Reagan wouldn't have been Reagan enough for that guy.

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